French Royal Army

The French Royal Army was the army of the Kingdom of France from 1652 to 1830. King Louis XIV of France pioneered the creation of a formal military for France, with Michel Le Tellier and his son, the Marquis de Louvois, recreating the army as a disciplined and professional force of permanent regiments under central control. Weapons, promotions, drill, uniforms, and structure were improved or implemented, and the army was doubled in size. The army was one of the most powerful in the world, fighting in several wars under King Louis XIV, in the War of Austrian Succession, Seven Years' War, the American Revolutionary War, the French Revolutionary Wars. The army was disbanded during the French Revolution in 1792, being replaced by the republican French Revolutionary Army until 1802, and then by the Grande Armee until 1815. The Royal Army was recreated after the Bourbon Restoration, and its final dissolution occurred in 1830, when the July Revolution ended Bourbon rule in France.